Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing Through the Supply Chain (9780273730224) By Alan Harrison, Remko Van Hoek
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- Title: Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing Through the Supply Chain
- Author: Alan Harrison and Remko Van Hoek
- Publisher: Financial Times / Prentice Hall
- ISBN: 9780273730224
- Published: December 2010
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- Price: United Kingdom USA
- Excellent text that disseminates knowledge and understanding of logistics in an easy-to-read way
- Explains the theoretical concepts with great clarity
- Very close to the business through pragmatic and practical examples and well-chosen case studies
- Manages to explore the knowledge and in-depth understanding of logistics while remaining affordable and pleasant to read
- Its views reflect the international nature of logistics today
- Supply chain planning and control
- The agile supply chain
- Integrating the supply chain
- Purchasing and supply relationships
- Logistics future challenges and opportunities
- Index
Logistics Management and Strategy is an excellent text that disseminates knowledge and understanding of logistics in an easy-to-read way. While explaining with great clarity the theoretical concepts, it remains very pragmatic and close to business life through the use of concrete examples and well-chosen case studies. It manages to examine logistics knowledge and understanding in depth while at the same time remaining not only very accessible but really pleasant to read. Finally, its international perspective reflects the nature of logistics today.
Must have for postgraduate students on logistics courses, attractive as a management textbook and as recommended reading on MBA options in logistics and supply chain management.
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Alan Harrison - Professor of Operations and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management. Director of Research at The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Remko van Hoek - Visiting Professor of Supply Chain Management at The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Chief Procurement Officer at GDF SUEZ/Cofely the Netherlands. |
- Logistics and the supply chain
- Putting the end-customer first
- Value and logistics costs
- Managing logistics internationally
- Managing the lead-time frontier
- Supply chain planning and control
- The agile supply chain
- Integrating the supply chain
- Purchasing and supply relationships
- Logistics future challenges and opportunities
- Index
COMPETING THROUGH LOGISTICS
LEVERAGING LOGISTICS OPERATIONS
WORKING TOGETHER
CHANGING THE FUTURE
Buy: United Kingdom USA
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